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Jennifer Homendy, chair of the Nationwide Transportation Security Board, says that the issue that resulted in a door plug blowing out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet minutes right into a January 5 flight may occur once more.
“After all, one thing like this could occur once more,” she informed CNN’s Poppy Harlow on CNN This Morning Wednesday, though she added, “That is the explanation the NTSB exists to make sure this by no means occurs once more.”
Her feedback got here a day after a preliminary report on the investigation of Alaska Airways’ blowout incident revealed that proof factors to the 4 bolts wanted to carry the door plug in place have been lacking.
“There isn’t a manner that this airplane ought to have been delivered with 4 security crucial bolts lacking,” she stated. “There’s an issue within the course of.”
Regardless of her harsh evaluation of this incident, Homendy stated she wouldn’t hesitate flying on a 737 Max 9 herself.
“Completely. They’ve been inspected, completely, I consider,” she stated. “I might don’t have any drawback tomorrow taking a flight on a Max 9.”
On Tuesday, Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Whitaker testified earlier than Congress that the company he has been working since October has been relying an excessive amount of on plane makers like Boeing to manage themselves.
“The present system will not be working ‘trigger it’s not delivering secure plane,” he stated Tuesday. “So now we have to make some adjustments to that.”
Homendy stated that the NTSB can be adjustments that have to be made on the FAA.
“I completely agree that it wants to alter,” she stated. “There’s an issue within the course of. We’re not simply digging into what’s occurring at Boeing. We’re additionally digging to FAA’s oversight of Boeing as nicely. I’m very inspired by the administrator’s feedback.”
She stated that the string of high quality issues at Boeing suggests there’s a drawback there that goes past the airplane within the Alaska Airways incident.
“I believe there’s a high quality management drawback,” she stated. “That’s precisely what we’re digging in on proper now… to see the place there are deficiencies to verify this doesn’t reoccur.”